HR Software in Chennai

HR Software in Chennai

EasyHR is a cloud HR and payroll platform used by Chennai SMEs across IT services, automotive, manufacturing, BFSI, and BPO. We handle Tamil Nadu Professional Tax (the half-yearly Greater Chennai Corporation regime), the Tamil Nadu Shops & Establishments Act, and statutory deductions out of the box. Our team can come set you up in person across Chennai, and pricing starts at ₹60 per employee per month. No minimum headcount.

What’s different about running HR in Chennai

Chennai’s HR workload has a few specific patterns that catch generic HRMS products out.

Tamil Nadu’s Professional Tax regime is half-yearly, not monthly. Greater Chennai Corporation collects PT in two windows per year (April-September, due by 30 September; October-March, due by 31 March). Most HRMS products default to monthly PT deduction and create reconciliation chaos. The right approach is to accrue monthly and remit half-yearly against the GCC slabs.

The IT belt sits along the OMR (Old Mahabalipuram Road, also called the IT Expressway) running south through Sholinganallur, Navalur, and Siruseri. Tidel Park at Taramani and the SIPCOT IT belt at Siruseri hold a meaningful chunk of Chennai’s IT workforce. A typical 250-person Chennai IT company has its main office somewhere along OMR, often a smaller team at Tidel Park, and engineers who commute via company shuttles from across the city.

The auto belt is the second pillar. Sriperumbudur, Oragadam, and Maraimalai Nagar host Hyundai, Renault-Nissan, Ford’s old facility (now Ola Electric), Daimler, plus the tier-one and tier-two suppliers. The HR workload is three-shift, plant-floor biometric, and overtime-heavy. Most generic products don’t handle this well.

Chennai monsoon (October-December) is also serious. WFH spikes during heavy-rain weeks. The attendance system has to handle home selfie attendance for office staff during these weeks while keeping shift-based attendance for the manufacturing belt unchanged.

EasyHR is built around these realities. The defaults assume Chennai SME, configurable for the rest.

Tamil Nadu compliance, ready out of the box

Set the office location to Tamil Nadu and the statutory rules switch on, including the half-yearly PT regime that Tamil Nadu uses (which is unusual among Indian states).

Professional tax (Tamil Nadu - Greater Chennai Corporation, FY 2026-27)

Tamil Nadu’s PT is half-yearly. EasyHR accrues monthly and remits per the GCC schedule:

Half-yearly salary	PT (₹)
Up to ₹21,000	Nil
₹21,001 - ₹30,000	130
₹30,001 - ₹45,000	235
₹45,001 - ₹60,000	510
₹60,001 - ₹75,000	760
Above ₹75,000	1,095

First half-year (April-September) PT is due by 30 September. Second half-year (October-March) PT is due by 31 March. EasyHR handles the half-yearly remittance and generates the relevant returns.

Tamil Nadu Shops & Establishments Act 1947

The attendance and leave engine handles the parts that hit you day to day:

• 8-hour daily and 48-hour weekly limits on work
• A break required after 4 to 5 continuous hours
• One full weekly holiday for every employee
• 12 days of casual leave per year
• 12 days of sick leave per year
• 1 day of earned leave for every 12 days worked

Tamil Nadu also requires registration under the Act within 30 days, with renewal every 5 years. New customers get help with the Tamil Nadu Labour Department registration as part of onboarding.

The full statutory feature list is on the payroll software page.

Chennai industries we work with

The HR workload looks different across Chennai sectors, so the configuration does too.

For IT services and product companies along OMR (Sholinganallur, Navalur, Siruseri, the SIPCOT IT belt), at Tidel Park (Taramani), and in Ambattur, the work is around shift-based attendance for 24/7 support teams, project-billing timesheets, multi-location consolidated payroll, and clean audit trails for client billing reconciliation.

Automotive customers across the Sriperumbudur-Oragadam-Maraimalai Nagar belt (Hyundai, Renault-Nissan, Daimler, Ola Electric, plus the tier-one and tier-two suppliers) need three-shift attendance, plant-floor biometric integration, contractor workforce tracking, and overtime calculation that handles night-shift premiums correctly.

Manufacturing customers in the Ambattur Industrial Estate, Guindy Industrial Estate, and across the Chennai-Tiruvallur belt need shift-based attendance, contractor versus permanent staff segregation, and statutory compliance for the Factories Act in addition to S&E Act.

For BFSI back-offices and captive operations along OMR and at Anna Salai, the configuration covers KYC-grade verification, regulatory training compliance, and asset issue and return tracking for compliance-sensitive devices. There’s more on the BFSI HR software page.

BPO and shared-services customers (heavy along OMR and Ambattur) need shift-based attendance, overtime tracking against Tamil Nadu S&E Act caps, and break-time enforcement that survives audits.

What this looks like in practice

Take a 240-employee Chennai automotive components company (we’ll keep them anonymous). They have a manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur, an admin and engineering office at Guindy, and a small design team in OMR (Tidel Park).

Their monthly payroll runs as a single pass across three work locations. Tamil Nadu PT accrues monthly per employee and remits half-yearly per the GCC schedule. EPFO and ESI generate against the Chennai regional offices. Form 16 generation is centralized.

Their plant attendance handles three rotating shifts cleanly, with biometric integration at the Sriperumbudur facility and shift premiums calculated against Tamil Nadu S&E Act rules. The contractor workforce (around 60 people on a typical month) is tracked separately for compliance, with their own attendance and statutory contributions.

Office staff at Guindy and OMR use a mix of office geofence, selfie attendance during the monsoon WFH weeks, and standard biometric. Engineering review cycles run quarterly with goals and ratings tracked in EasyHR.

Compliance work that used to take a week per cycle (the half-yearly PT returns, monthly PF and ESI, contractor compliance under CLRA, and S&E Act renewals) now runs as single-click reports.

Why teams here pick EasyHR

There’s a Chennai team. We do in-person implementation across Chennai, including OMR (Sholinganallur, Navalur, Siruseri), Tidel Park, Guindy, Ambattur, T Nagar, and the Sriperumbudur-Oragadam belt. Most setups finish in 7 to 14 days.

We’re Tamil Nadu-aware from day one. The half-yearly PT regime, S&E Act rules, registration cycle, and Chennai-specific holidays are all pre-configured. You don’t spend the first week of implementation explaining the half-yearly PT logic to a customer success rep who’s never run a Tamil Nadu payroll.

Pricing starts at ₹60 per employee per month, billed in INR with clean GST on invoices. There’s no minimum-employee cliff. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.

You can reach us by phone at +91-99302-05985 during business hours, or schedule an in-person demo at your office.

It’s a single product. HR, attendance, payroll, and statutory compliance all sit in one place, not Zoho People plus Zoho Payroll, not greytHR plus a separate compliance tool. One invoice, one admin console, one upgrade path. If you’re comparing, we have writeups on Keka, greytHR, and Zoho People.

What people usually ask

Does EasyHR handle Tamil Nadu’s half-yearly PT regime? It does. The system accrues PT monthly per employee and remits to Greater Chennai Corporation per the half-yearly schedule (by 30 September and 31 March). The GCC slabs are pre-loaded. We’ve seen too many systems default to monthly PT and create reconciliation chaos.

What does it cost for a Chennai SME? ₹60 per employee per month on the Starter tier. There’s no minimum headcount, so a 12-person team pays for 12 people. The pricing page has the tier breakdown.

Can I run payroll for an OMR office and a Sriperumbudur plant together? Yes. Whether they’re separate legal entities or branches under one entity, EasyHR consolidates payroll while keeping per-location reporting clean for audits. Office attendance at OMR and three-shift plant attendance at Sriperumbudur run side by side.

Does it work for office staff and plant-floor staff? Both. Biometric integration for the plant floor with three-shift handling, selfie plus GPS plus geofencing for sales and field teams, office geofence for the IT team. One platform, one report.

Do you handle contractor workforce compliance under CLRA? Yes. Contractor staff are tracked separately for compliance, with their own attendance, payroll, and statutory contributions. Form V and other CLRA reports generate as needed.

How long does implementation take? Usually 7 to 14 working days for a 50- to 250-person company. The Chennai team can do in-person setup at your office. We also run one parallel payroll cycle before cutover so you can compare outputs against your previous system line by line.

Can I migrate from Keka, greytHR, or Zoho People? Yes, we do migrations off all three regularly. Standard scope is employee master, year-to-date payroll history, leave balances, document attachments, org structure, and statutory entity setup including the Tamil Nadu half-yearly PT history. Migration is included in onboarding, no separate fee. Five to ten working days end to end.

Does it handle Chennai monsoon WFH attendance switching? Yes. Selfie plus GPS with home and office geofences, and the policy switches automatically between WFH and office mode. You don’t reconfigure anything each October.

Get in touch

The fastest way to see EasyHR with your data is to talk to the Chennai team.

Call +91-99302-05985 during business hours, or start a 14-day free trial and we’ll set up a Chennai-specific demo within one business day.